Bed



L. EDELSTEIN.

BED.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 27. 1919.

Patented 0 t.12,1920.

UNITED STATES (PATENT OFFICE.

BED.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 12, 1920.

Application filed January 27, 1919. Serial No. 273,463.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LOUIS EDELs'rEIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dickson city, in the county of Lackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beds; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view is; to provide connecting means for avoiding the use of bolts, nails, screws and other metallic fastening devices; and to provide attaching devices constructed to interlock with each other.

Drawings.

view in perspective of Description.

As seen in the drawings, the numeral 1 bed having attached the usual head and foot board rails 2. Each of the corner posts has a socket 3 which is spaced from the lower end thereof to receive the tenons 6 of the side boards 5. The side walls 4 of the sockets 3 converge toward their lower ends and are undercut to retain the tenons 6 when the same are disposed therein.

The side boards of the bed are provided with tenons 6 tapered to their lower ends. The tenons 6 it the lower portions of the sockets 3, and are held snugly therein.

The side boards 5 are provided adjacent the opposite ends thereof with undercut sockets 7, tapered toward their lower ends and adapted for holding in service brackets 8. The said brackets 8 have each a body socket for the slat rail used to designate the corner posts of the 10 of less width than v with the socket 7, and with the lower portion thereof, the undercut walls of said tenons and sockets engaging to hold the brackets firmly in boards 5.

The ledge rails 13 are porting the slats of the bed. Each of said ra ls has recesses 14, near its ends for receiving a head 10. inner wall of each recess is inclined in correspondence with the face 11 of the head 10 on the bracket 9. It will be seen that when the parts are assembled, the overhanging portion of the headlO extends within the recess 14 when the lower edge of the. ledge rail 13 rests on the body of the bracket 8.

In assembling the bed, the side boards are first positioned in the head and foot members by inserting the tenons 6 in the sockets 3, and forcing the said tenons downwardly so that they wedge in position. The rails 13 are then positioned upon the body portion 9 of said brackets 8, the heads 10 being disposed in the recesses 14. The tenons 12 of the brackets 8 are then placed in the sockets 7, and the brackets are forced down. It will be seen that the said heads enter the recesses 14 in the rails 13, and that the tenons 12 will be wedged in place in the sockets 7.

In this manner it is evident that the whole structure is locked together without using nails, screws, or similar fastening means.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that when constructing a bed in conformity with the present invention, the structure may be readily and easily dismembered and each member being integral may be thoroughly service relation to the side inspected to eliminate any vermin or other lodgments. Also the parts being separable in the manner disclosed, they may be readily sanatized or fumigated. v

provided for sup- 3 As shown in Fig. 5, the

1. A bed structure comprising a plurality than the lower ends thereof, and t e si es" I ledge rails to of said socket overhanging at the lower ends of ledge rails c0-eX- each of said rails having sockets adjacent their ends,

in service with the thereof; a plurality tensive with said side-boards,

said sockets being alined said sockets in the side boards; and a plurality ofbrackets for supporting said ledge rails, each of said -brackets having an anchoring member adapted for -'eiztension withinto be held by said sockets in said side. boards,-said brackets having each an upwardly extending head for engaging said side *board ciatedr v i '2. A bedstruoture comprising a plurality of side boards, each having adjacent the opposite ends thereof, sockets, said sockets opening toward the center of said structure,

with which said railis assothan the lower ends and each of said draw the same toward the cut head for engaging said sockets in said the upper end of the openings being larger of-said socket overhanging at the lower ends thereof; a plurality of ledge rails coextensive with said side boards, each of said rails having sockets adjacent theirends, said sockets being alined in service withthe said sockets in the side boards; and a plurality of brackets for supporting said ledge rails in service, each of said brackets having a tenon provided with undercut side edges for engaging said sockets in said side boards brackets having an underledge rails to preventlifting said ledge rails independently of said brackets.

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